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We have a conference call this afternoon with a potential collaborator to go over preliminary results we've generated for the project, and yesterday our lab met to go over what we have and to decide how best to present the data, what to send the other group, etc. Our boss asked us to put together a few slides and send to her at the end of the day so she could look over them before sending along this morning to the collaborators. So this morning, in the last 2 hours, we've gotten I don't know how many e-mails (from our boss) asking questions about the data, asking for more slides and more information, etc. etc., all AFTER she already sent them to the other group. What the F was the point of us sending it to her first if she wasn't even going to look at it before sending along???????? :wallbash:

Travel mugs. The size of cup holders in automobiles is pretty well standardized, so why do I have several travel mugs that tip over and slosh coffee in my car when I turn a corner? :thumbdown:

Sabres lost a game they should have won. :censored:

:lol:

My dog's new bathroom habits. He used to sleep like a champ, and now he's started waking me up in the middle of the night to either get a drink or to go outside. Granted, I sincerely appreciate him waking me up to go out rather than peeing on the bed, but when I'm only getting 5-6 hours of sleep most nights anyhow, getting up 1-3 times is not cool. And going to the bathroom before I get home from work. I can't be mad at the little guy because I work ridiculously long hours right now and he's older so I don't expect him to hold it, but seriously -- did he HAVE to step in his own poop and track it all around the house? I get home late last night and had to shampoo the living room/dining room carpet, mop the kitchen floor, and clean the dried poop off his paws. Fun times.

Good luck!

I'm with you, man... school is only good if you can focus on it full-time. Full-time work and part-time graduate school sucks b@lls.

lol my dog, too -- I tried clearing an area for him after each of the storms, but down here it's all been melting and re-freezing so even if it isn't deep, it's icy and hard as a rock. Sometimes he gives up trying to walk on it and just takes a dump on the sidewalk instead. Can't say I blame the little guy.

My mom and brother moved out to Phoenix this past year and I'm headed there tomorrow for a visit. My complaint? Back in October, it seemed like an awesome idea to see the Sabres play the Coyotes Sat. night... now I'm just hoping I won't be embarrassed to have on a Sabres jersey. <_<

:thumbsup: I'll have to try that, I've only made the standard black and/or white, but orange sounds tasty. And you win -- sorry to hear about your daughter.

I can now (unfortunately) remedy my own prior complaint. I have an experiment I've been putting off doing since Monday. This afternoon I finally get motivated and label everything, thaw the reagents I need, etc. etc. I have 44 samples to run, and after the 43rd sample the effing POS laptop we have connected to the instrument taking the measurements decided to turn off (the measurements export to Excel as they are taken). No recovery file, even though it's set to auto-save every 10 minutes and this took me at least 30 min. Thought I could at least manually write down the measurements from the instrument but it only displays the last 20 taken, so I have to re-run the other 24, which also means labeling more tubes and again thawing more reagents. This POS laptop from our department has not one, but THREE levels of secure logins because of concerns over patient data, except it's never used for anything except this one instrument that records nothing close to anything that resembles patient data. It doesn't even have an enter key since the button came off and no one replaced it! :censored:

:thumbsup:

Connolly IS playing Saturday. http://www.wgr550.com/Connolly-to-Return--Kaleta-Out-for-Saturday/8882404

I have a complaint -- hardly anyone is complaining today! :nana: Must be d4rksabre is finally healthy again.

I ordered my dad's x-mas present last Sat. online and paid 1/3 the cost of the item in "expedited" shipping so that it would arrive in time, and now it looks like it won't arrive until next week. :censored:

Not just probably.

I'm exhausted from working an absurd number of hours the last week or so, and when I finally get home I can't even relax because my house is a mess. :(

+1

So a few months ago I accidentally dropped my phone in my dog's water bowl, and it mostly recovered but a few of the keys stopped working. No biggie, it's a touchscreen so I could get away with just a minor inconvenience of having to copy and paste text for a few letters. I'm finally eligible for an upgrade discount this month, and I decided since I really like the phone I have I would just get another of the same. It arrived on Tuesday, and I got it activated and successfully programmed, etc etc. Except the very next day it starts randomly rebooting itself every so often, and now today I've missed two calls (that I know of) where my phone never rang at all and it won't reliably send text messages. I went through a wipe/reinstall today and it is still doing it. :censored: Oh, and congrats to Shrader! :thumbsup:

Thanks, Wally! That was a laser by Thomas.

My only complaint: I can't focus at work because I'm obsessively checking SabreSpace for updates on the potential sale!

Blargh.

Oh poop.

W00t!

Argh, WGR app, why do you taunt me so?